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" Whereupon being not a little discomforted, we were advising with ourselves what we should do. During which time there made forth to us a small boat, with about eight persons in it ; whereof one of them had in his hand a tipstaff of a yellow cane, tipped... "
Famous Utopias: Being the Complete Text of Rousseau's Social Contract, More ... - Page 236
1901 - 317 pages
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English Composition: With Chapters on Precis Writing, Prosody and Style

William Murison - 1926 - 452 pages
...two independent sentences. Bacon (New Atlantis) writes "Whereupon, being not a little discomforted, we were advising with ourselves what we should do....us a small boat, with about eight persons in it." This usage is now archaic. Carlyle has it in Sartor Resartus. A second method of indicating relation...
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Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents

Edmund Burke - 1913 - 220 pages
...demonstrative pronoun is the regular usage. Compare, " Whereupon, being not a little discomforted, we were advising with ourselves what we should do....During which time there made forth to us a small boat." Bacon, New Atlantis. So Galat. iv. 24. The construction, which seems to be a Latinism, was widespread...
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